(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama [electronic resource] /
McDaniel, L. Bailey.author.
Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class.
Introduction: If it's not one thing, it's your mother: race, sex, class and "essential" maternity -- New woman (re)production: progressive era eugenics in Rachel Crothers' "feminist" mother  --  Ethnic anxieties, post-modern angst, and maternal bodies in Philip Kan Gotanda's The wash and fish head soup -- Race and the "domestic" threat: sexing the Mammy in Tony Kushner, Alfred Uhry, and Cheryl West -- Queering the domestic diaspora, "enduring" borderlands: Cherríe Moraga's Familia de la frontera -- Conclusion: Nurturing performance, raising questions.
Sociology.
Theater—History.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Arts.
Gender Studies.
Theatre History.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Performing Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Arts.